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Thursday, January 19, 2012

A Thought

I was working on Limitless Fantasy today and I found myself writing this:

"No matter where they are in the world, everyone playing a videogame or MMO game is playing the exact same game in the exact same world.* Yet every single table where a group of friends gather around to roll dice is an utterly unique universe filled with stories that have never been told before. And that to [me], is a glorious thing."

This is certainly not an original thought, but it is still pretty mindblogging.

*Not to disparage the idea. Everyone reading the same book is also participating in a shared experience.

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Your Friend and Future Leader

After leaving gaming, our Hero became a samurai-for-hire in the mean streets of Saskatoon. He then moved to Montreal where he battled the forces of the Khmer Rouge, the Legion of Supervillians and Mary Kay. During this time, be became closely involved with the Free Winona movement and was arrested for staging a guerrilla screening of 'How to Make an American Quilt.'

Escaping custody, he disappeared for a few years into the underground streetfighting scene utilizing his purple-nurple skills to deadly effect. When he resurfaced, she had taken the alias Kelly Elizabeth Finklestien, and appeared as an extra on both Miama Vice, ALF and Punky Brewster.

After fronting "Sled-Dog Afterbirth", a yoddeling-grunge band out of Yellowknife, he travelled to Newfoundland where he single-highhandedly wiped out the last of the cod stock. There are unconfirmed reports that he spent some time in northern Manitoba, possibly working for the clandestine Department Zed as the vigilante-by-night known as “The Stoat“.

Nowadays, he is semi-retired and living in Halifax where, when not desperately reading the rule-book the night before a game, he raises Venezuelan hairless llamas and is currently learning to play the thereminvox.